July in McDonough arrives thick, the cicadas going up in the pines and the Bermuda pushing an inch a week whether anyone is watching or not. Nature's Turf keeps the mower moving through it — heights set for the heat, edges cut sharp along the drive, trimming worked in around mailboxes, posts and the base of every crape myrtle. Clippings get blown off the walks so nothing is left to bake onto the concrete. A lawn kept on schedule through a Georgia summer is a different animal from one rescued in September. That's the whole aim: turf that looks the same good way in the last week of August as it did in May.